· Private foundation
Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $3,700 |
| LAKESHORE FOUNDATION | $3,700 |
| KINGS HOME | $3,600 |
| GLENWOOD INC | $3,600 |
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $3,600 |
| PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $3,600 |
| WORKSHOPS INC | $3,600 |
| UAB CENTER FOR LOW VISION REHABILITATION | $3,600 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ALABAMA | $2,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +78%
- SSSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +30%
- LFLAKESHORE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2017 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UCUAB CENTER FOR LOW VISIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
Provide year-round sports training & athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,…
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
The Association's Mission is to fund quality eye treatment for the medically indigent of Alabama. Services provided include providing glasses, surgeries, anesthesia, medically necessary contact lenses, prosthesis, tests and eye medication.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.
Crestwood day school is a private elementary (k-6th) grade school in alabama.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
The arc of alabama provides services to aid individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…
The mission of the school is to prepare students for leadership positions in the aerospace and aviation industries through a rigorous, authentic, industry-aligned aerospace and defense education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hand in Paw Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Restoration Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Henry G Sims & Henry U Sims Mem Fd funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.